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"The Royal Merchant Navy Education Foundation has been a complete life saver and Oliver is doing very well and is extremely settled and happy at his new school. The Royal Merchant Navy Education Foundation really has made all the difference and we are both hugely grateful!"

Sue Jackson, mother of RMNEF Foundationer Oliver

WELCOME TO THE ROYAL MERCHANT NAVY EDUCATION FOUNDATION

Today’s Royal Merchant Navy Education Foundation started life in 1827 as The Merchants’ Seamen’s Orphan Asylum, which was tasked not only with
providing board and lodging for the orphans of British Merchant Navy
seamen but also, and pertinently, with sufficient education to enable
them to obtain employment.

It is now a British national children's educational charity, which
provides funding for the needy British children of Merchant Navy
seafarers, professional sea-going fishermen and RNLI lifeboat crew
members, who have served or are serving at sea and who are unable to
meet their children's educational needs. Our Patron is HM The Queen and
our President is HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM.

We help our beneficiaries, or 'Foundationers' as we call them, by
providing support that 'enables education' - which could be anything
from school fees, textbooks or uniform, right through to computers,
internet access or even shoe repairs!

To find out more about our work, and how we might be able to help you or someone you know, pleaseget in touchtoday or clickhereto view our video case studies.

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